Chapter 22:
But then I saw my own body lying on the hospital beil, medical equipment attached to me
An N he was inserted into the back of my hand 2
Estepped closer to the bed, staring at my body diessed in a hospital gown f
What happened to me?
I tried to recall everything had rushed to my buined down boutique after seeing the news remembered standing in front of the
I Rined store–without Nathon!
And then-
Out of nowhere, I was attacked. A mysterious figure had plunged a sharp knife into my stomach while I was on a call with Nathan.
Was it Nathan who brought me here?)
I turned my head as the door opened. Nathan walked in, approaching my bed, his gaze locked onto my unconscious body. His eyes were swollen, his expression sumber.}}
Had he been crying
“Nathan” I called out to him, but he didn’t react. My breath caught when I saw him suddenly break into quiet sobs:
His cries were heartbreaking, yet I couldn’t do anything. Even when I tried to reach out and comfort him, my hand simply passed through his body
My soul is truly wandering now
“Sharon, please wake up,” he pleaded, clutching my hand and kissing the back of it repeatedly, his sobs growing louder
This was the first time I had ever seen him cry–and he was crying for me.
“If you want to punish me, don’t do it like this. Please.” he begged again.).
I didn’t understand why he was this devastated over my condition. Or maybe I should have known.
He loved me.||
No one would be okay seeing their loved one on the brink of death?
“Wake up, love. Don’t you want to meet the twins? They’re already here. They’re handsome.……
froze. Only then did I realize my stomach was no longer swollen
My babies they’ve been born??
“I promise you, love,” Nathan wiped his tears and looked at my body with an unreadable expression. 7 will find whoever did this to you.”
He turned to his bag, which I hadn’t noticed before, pulled out his laptop, and opened it. His face hardened as his fingers flew across the keyboard
I moved closer, standing beside him to see what he was doing. I didn’t understand much of the codes flashing on the screen, but moments later, a video began playing X
I guessed that Nathan had hacked into the boutique’s CCTV footage, as well as surrounding cameras. There were multiple recordings playing simultaneously–after all, we had no idea when exactly the fire had started.
Nathan even checked the footage from the previous day when I had last been inside the boutique, finalizing a deal with Madame Dupont
Nothing seemed suspicious–until Nathan played the footage from midnight. His expression tensed, and I could feel his determination to uncover the truth.
My initial thought was that the fire had been caused by an occident, perhaps by one of my employees being careless with an open flame
But Nathan’s instincts and intuition as a hacker were sharp.)
“I knew it. There’s no way her boutique burned down on its own,” he muttered as he continued watching.X
A figure appeared on the CCTV footage–someone was seen dousing my boutique in gasoline before setting it ablaze with a lit match. The flames quickly spread, eventually destroying the CCTV camera itself.
Whoever did this must have thought the footage would be lost forever, that the evidence would burn along with the security room inside the boutique
What they didn’t know was that I had a man who could retrieve anything he wanted.X
Nathan clicked something–perhaps copying the footage or doing something else I couldn’t quite grasp. Then he switched to another video, this time from a street camera
The same figure from before was seen getting into a car parked near my boutique. A red cor–one that looked oddly familiar
Could I be suspecting the right person?
Nathan zoomed in, capturing the license plate and tracking it through his phone. And then-
“Owner of the vehicle: Grace Simon… he muttered, his jaw tightening.
I stared at the laptop screen, trying to recognize the mysterious figure–though Nathan’s assumption about Grace seemed more and
con face for quite some time, and I could easily recognize her body shape even if s
it really was Grace Could it i
My hand instinctively moved to my stomach?
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He walked out of the room. Desant hums instucting the nurses to take care of me while he won awaydi
I snded softly before torting my gaze back to my body ||
My twins
Honged to return to any body, desperate to meet my precious babies.
A week later, God granted me asniher
cat life. Perhaps this was His way of revealing
I slowly opened my eyes, adjusting to the brightness. I could faintly hear my mother’s voice calling my name. My vision gradually became clearer
The sight before me remained unchanged–a stende winte mom with the pungent smell of medicine.
Pain fared ith my stentach when I tried to move
A doctor approached “Mifam, can you hear me
I gave a small nod, unable to move my lips to respondt. The doctor smiled, then asked for my permission to examine me
I glanced around, looking for someone. My mother was there, barely holding back tears at the sight of me regaining consciousness.
But – Nathan wasn’t there?
Where was
Was he still looking for Grace?).
My thoughts wandered. I never expected Grace to go this far I thought she had given up after trying to ruin my reputation with
But clearly, she wasn’t done had no idea what she wanted from me
“Your condition is stable, but I advise you not to move too much. Your wounds haven’t fully healed yet, the doctor informed me
I nodded again.
The doctor excused himself, leaning me alone with my mother. I hadn’t spoken yet, but before I could say anything-
The door burst open with force
